Search for software in your audit data

Find software details down to very granular detail from the Search tab in the Admin Console.

You can search for which PC has something installed, or do a Reverse Search and find those that do not have it installed.

Once you are at the Search view, select the type of search you want from the drop-down box:

• Search by Installed Software Title - This is similar to but more extensive than the Windows Control Panel "Add/Remove Programs" (or in Vista "Programs and Features") listing.  In most cases, this is a good choice.  However, if you need information for a program that is part of a "suite" this is not the best choice.  For example you would see "Microsoft Office Professional 2003" but Word, Excel, etc., would not appear.
  
  Tip: Installed Software titles are the program names that the software publisher has registered with Windows.  While this is most software 16-bit applications, DOS programs, and, of course, malicious software may not appear in this list.  If you need to drill down further or don't see an item here, you should search by Find Program Name or Find EXE/DLL/ Files.

• Search by file name ("Find EXE/DLL/ Files") - This choice is available when you perform Full Audits and allows you to search by the actual program file name, for example "winword.exe".  The search results show you all PCs that have it (or if you selected Reverse Search, that do not), along with version number, file size, and the path where it was found on the user's PC.
   

• Search by program name ("Find Program Name") - This is the same as Search by File name but instead uses the program name for the file.  Let's suppose you want to find the Symantec Live Update module file.  If you don't know what the .exe file name is, no problem: with this search, look for the program name, click it, and the results are the same as above: each PC, with program version, file size, and location of the file.
   

• Microsoft Office products - This option shows you how many of each of the core Office Suite products you have (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access), along with what general version (e.g. Office XP, Office 2000, etc.), and what PCs have them.

You can print the search results, or export them to CSV or tab-delimited formats right from the results page.

Here's an example of a search by Installed Software Titles:

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Here's an example of the search, and the results, of a "Find EXE/DLL/Files" search:

 
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